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Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drams, such as directing, writing and sound design, with media history and communication theory.
Challenging the belief that sound drama is a 'blind medium', Radio Drama shows how experimentation in radio narrative has blurred the dividing line between fiction and reality in modern media. Using extracts from scripts and analysing radio broadcasts from America, Britain, Canada and Australia, the book explores the practicalities of producing drama for radio. Tim Crook illustrates how far radio drama has developed since the first 'audiophonic production' and evaluates the future of radio drama in the age of live phone-ins and immedate access to programmes on the Internet.

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'There are very few textbooks for media teachers interested in radio, so any new addition to the ranks is very welcome. When they are as good as this one it's time to celebrate.' - Roy Stafford, in the picture, Summer 2000

'Everybody interested in radio should read and enjoy this book and for any teacher taking radio seriously as part of an 'academic' or vocational media course it is an essential purchase.' - Roy Stafford, in the picture, Summer 2000

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Tim Crook has written, directed and produced a number of international award wining radio plays, series and documentaries. He is the Head of Radio at Goldmsiths College, University of London, and the author of International Radio Journalism.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (September 9, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415216036
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415216036
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.28 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.71 x 11 inches
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Mark Renwick
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book Published on Radio Drama
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2000
I am a PhD student and this book provides the most up to date and well written outline of studying and making radio drama that I can find anywhere in publications. Other books on radio drama are very old (about 20 years). Crook not only does an original media history on the subject which is quite the best scholarship on this subject available, he really inspires you to appreciate this wonderful form of story telling. You get an intellectual/academic theory on things like radio drama writing which is done in a clear style and then you are offered the nuts and bolts of the craft.
The text also modernises all the existing approaches to radio drama. The section on the role of improvised/live radio drama in phone-in programmes and hoaxes is brilliant and original. He also takes a well known BBC radio play 'Spoonface Steinberg' by Lee Hall which I happened to think was one of the best things I have heard in recent years. (It's also available on cassette via Amazon.com) In his writing Crook explains why artistically and from a producer/listener's point of view it was so good and merits attention. But then he subjects it to Cultural Studies analysis and raises the kind of questions which are going to enhance radio drama as an important cultural form of storytelling. This is really critical and thought-provoking.
You will not be disappointed reading this book if you are in to storytelling, radio, radio drama, writing etc.
I checked out the comments by reviewer 'Gwen- Yale University'. But none of the quotes she has in her review appear anywhere in the book.
They are taken from an on-line essay by Crook 'International Radio Drama.' Everybody's entitled to their point of view but I think it is good that mainstream scholars are now recognising African-American radio dramatists such as Richard Durham and centrally rooting their position.
In Radio Drama-Theory and Practice Crook adopts a McLuhanesque line on how audio drama has a future on the Internet and persists as a story-telling presence in commercial production on most radio formats.
There is also a very helpful bibliography which can take you to radio drama texts you may never knew existed.
I would also recommend a book on Radio Acting by Alan Beck which was published 3 years ago. In the past 'British Radio Drama' by Drakakis (Cambridge University Press 1981) is magnificent. Let's hope there are more good books on radio drama coming out.
So my conclusion is read or buy this book and you will not be disappointed.
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Daniela Souza
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good.
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2012
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This book was very helpfull for my studies. It's very good for teachers, students and journalists. I liked it a lot. In Brazil, we don't have a book that describes a radiodrama production.
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Anne Sally Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars Really Good Value New Look At Radio Drama
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2000
I found this book pretty cool because you get an angle on the academic things such as a look at media history through radio or sound plays which takes you right up into the World Wide Web world.
It is also the first book that has explained how to structure a play and juggle the writing of characters with sorting out a plot. I know there are other things around but this book explains it. Suddenly it all clicked.
There is a long section on improvisation in live radio and it kind of bravely suggests that hoaxers on the radio are live dramatists.
I found this book really good value because it does not insult the intelligence of the reader and also it is not full of that academic stuffy kind of writing which sends me to sleep.
Fully recommend it.
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NyBerliner
3.0 out of 5 stars Theory: yes, practice: no
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2005
The book is long on theory and history of radio drama. If you need that, buy it! If you are looking for practical guidance to produce radio drama, only about three of 23 chapters will be of help. But you might find more in its bibliogrpahy. J.
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Sal Davis
2.0 out of 5 stars Misleading product description; minimal practical content.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 4, 2015
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This book is a six-hour-long list of the first time anyone did anything notable in radio (or related media). Yay, if you want a history of radio drama. If you actually want to understand the how and why of radio drama beyond a Naming of Parts, this is not the book for you. It is maddeningly academic. The product description is frankly misleading. It is primarily a dry media history and communication theory discourse; some practical skills may accidentally be found near the text. Would not recommend to anyone outside academia.
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